Rainbow Runway with THEYFRIEND
Saturday, April 5, 2025
6 pm
San Francisco Public Library
Children’s Center, Second Floor
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
FREE with registration
Host: Vin Seaman / LOL McFiercen
Featuring : JanpiStar & KaiKai Bee Michaels
About the Event
Join the THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival for the Rainbow Runway, an all-ages event celebrating drag and nonbinary identity!
Bring the whole family down for this event as part of San Francisco Public Library's Afternoon of Ideas!
Hosted by Vin Seaman / LOL McFiercen, we’ll start off with performances by drag superstars JanpiStar and KaiKai Bee Michaels and then have a short discussion on nonbinary identity.
Next, we’ll invite the audience to proudly share their name, pronouns and gender identity before strutting their stuff down our Rainbow Runway!
Come early or stay late for more programming happening at San Francisco Public Library, the Asian Art Museum and Fulton Plaza as part of the Night of Ideas. Full program brochure is available here.
About the Artists
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JanpiStar was born and raised in Puerto Rico and moved to Oakland, California to join AXIS Dance Company in 2018. Janpi has been commissioned by different Bay Area festivals and organizations, including: Queering Dance Festival in 2019, 2020 & 2022; and The Fresh Meat Festival in 2021 , 2022 , 2023 & 2025. In the last three years, JanpiStar has developed their art of being a drag queen in a wheelchair and has performed at the SF MOMA, The California Academy of Sciences, Oasis SF and Oaklash (2023, 2024).
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KaiKai Bee Michaels is a Bay area drag performer and cosplay artist with a passion for social justice and community care. They specialize in performances that are often fun yet thought provoking or deeply emotional as a reflection of culture and their own personal experience. KaiKai is a co-host/producer of several shows in SF and the East Bay. They delight in always bringing something new and refreshing to queer art and are motivated by engaging in the art of storytelling.
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Vin Seaman is an interdisciplinary artist, drag queen (LOL McFiercen) and the director of Diamond Wave. Drawing inspiration from sketch and stand up comedy, queer nightlife, internet aesthetics and their own nonbinary identity, Seaman’s work blends mediums and forms to create dynamic and interactive performances with the potential to shift minds and change hearts. Their work exploring queer identity and drag culture has been presented at The Stud, Brava, Oasis, El Rio, CounterPulse, the de Young, the Salesforce Tower, Frameline, the Tank NYC, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATELLITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stockholm’s Stolt Scenkonst, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts.